Software Engineer, AI Tooling

MatX; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 600,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

4 weeks PTO

Company health insurance

Dental & Vision

Life insurance

HSA/FSA

Retirement plan (401K)

Professional development budget

Team meals

Commute reimbursement

Remote home setup

Mental health benefit

Parental leave

Job summary

MatX in Mountain View, CA, is hiring a production infra engineer to empower our AI agent tooling. You will design scalable environments, short-lived VMs, and secure sandboxes to let agents operate safely.

You will build an auditable knowledge base and harnesses used across the stack, improving trust and efficiency for every engineer.

Qualifications

• Experience running production infrastructure in dynamic environments.
• Strong opinions on agent use, guardrails, and verification processes.
• Built workflows and agent harnesses adopted by other engineers.

Responsibilities

• Make agents legible and auditable with defined identities and task scope.
• Create environments for agents (short-lived VMs, sandboxes) for task runs.
• Build the company agent knowledge base from monorepo, designs, and Slack data.

Skills

Production infrastructure

Agent tooling

Security sandboxes

AI workflow automation

Tools

Bazel remote execution

Sandboxing

Job description

What MatX is Building

MatX builds custom silicon for training and running the world's largest AI models, with hardware/software co-design across ISA, RTL, simulator, compiler, and kernels. The AI tooling team sits across that whole stack and owns the agent harnesses and shared workflows that turn general-purpose coding agents into ones maximally useful on each layer.

About the position

Every engineering team using coding agents sits somewhere between watching every command and waking up to agent-written PRs waiting for review. What moves teams along this trust curve is how far engineers can trust their agents' judgment. An agent's judgment is only as good as its context and its ability to verify its work. However, context can be spread all over (think repos, design docs, Slack threads); the builds and simulations an agent needs to check its work may only be available on machines it can’t reach. You'd build infrastructure to address these gaps, at a company small enough your work reaches every engineer.

What You'll Do Here:

• Make agents legible, first-class users of our infrastructure. Each one gets an identity of its own, reaches exactly what its task needs and nothing else, and leaves a trail a person can later audit.

• Build environments for our agents to run in, e.g. short-lived VMs that exist for one task and no-egress sandboxes for long runs.

• Build our company agent knowledge base, the context agents start tasks with and the place they go to get more. Pull together information spread across our monorepo, design docs, and Slack and structure it for agent consumption.

Who You Are:

• Have run production infrastructure somewhere dynamic and know which shortcuts you’ll regret.

• Use coding agents heavily and have strong opinions on what you let them do, what you don't, and how you verify their work.

• Built engineering workflows (methodology, flow automation, review tooling, agent harnesses) that other engineers adopted and kept.

• Notice LLM agents asserting something confidently wrong and modify their harness in response.

Bonus Points If You Have:

• Have operated Bazel remote execution or a remote cache.

• Are familiar with sandboxing and episodic compute for untrusted workloads.

Compensation

The US base salary for this full-time position is determined based on a variety of factors including role, experience, location, job related skills, and relevant education and training. Career length is only a guideline for compensation.

• Early Career - $120,000 - $275,000 + equity

• Mid Career - $175,000 - $450,000 + equity

• Senior Career - $275,000 - $600,000 + equity

What We Offer

• Time off: 4 weeks PTO (accrued) + 12 company Holidays + up to 3 weeks remote work

• Health: Company-subsidized Medical (Kaiser or Anthem) for employees & dependents, Guardian Dental and Vision insurances for employee & dependents, and life insurance (employee only), plus HSA and FSA offerings via Lively.

• Financial Wellbeing: Choose from Roth IRA or 401K (or both) retirement plans with up to 5% company contribution to 401K (even if you don't contribute). Also, 100% company-paid life insurance (up to $300K) and long-term disability insurances.

• Professional Development: $1500 Professional Development Budget (per year)

• Team Meals: MatX provides onsite team lunch & dinner Monday - Friday, with your choice of ordering via WeBox, Specialty's or via our reimbursement system

• Commute on Us: Commute on our company Uber account, or reimburse your train rides. Either way, we pay 100% for your daily commute.

• MatX E[x]tras: $50/mo to use on the perk you value most

• Cell & Internet Reimbursement: $35/mo for cellular and $40/mo for wifi

• Remote Home Setup: Use our Amazon business account for up to $1000 in office setup purchases.

• Mental Wellbeing: 100% paid mental health benefit via SpringHealth and Guardian EAP.

• Support to Parents: Up to 12 weeks paid parental leave regardless of path to parenthood, 10 weeks pregnancy disability leave, flexible return-to-work hours, and Benepass reproductive health & parental benefit.

As part of our dedication to the diversity of our team and our focus on creating an inviting and inclusive work experience, MatX is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and will not discriminate against an applicant or employee on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, national origin or ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital/domestic partner status, military and veteran status, genetic information or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws, regulations or ordinances.
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